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Spain Builds an American Empire, Red - Important Event Blue - Vocabulary…
Spain Builds an American Empire
Christopher Columbus
Spanish Captain who embarked on a voyage trying to find a way around to India in October of 1492. Discovered Caribbean Island but thought it was India. Interacted with natives on island and called them Indians. Went back and thought it was India.
Hernando Cortés
Spanish conquistador in 1519 who colonized Caribbean and went to Mexico to claim new land.
Cortez conquered the Aztecs in 1521 with superior weaponry to steal their gold. Colonized in Mexico, South America, and United States
Francisco Pizarro
Conquistador in 1593 who conquered Incan Empire.
Killed Atahualpa and marched forward to conquer Cuzco in 1533.
Atahualpa
Incan ruler in 1532
Mestizo
Mixed Spanish and Native American population
Colony
Land controlled by another nation
Conquistador
Spanish explorers. Ex. Hernando Cortez and his explorers who followed
Spread of disease
Europeans spread smallpox, measles, and typhus to the natives which killed off much of their population.
Amerigo Vespucci
Italian explorer who named the Americas.
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